Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).
Esimerkit
- to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
- Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
- to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
- An ancient but reduced family. --Sir Walter Scott.
- Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --John Tillotson.
- Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- John Milton.
- Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. --Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Neither [Jones][...] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
- to reduce a province or a fort
- to reduce a city to ashes
- It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
- ~ by half vähentää puoleen
- If the sauce is too thin, reduce.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | reduced | Partisiipin perfekti | reduc't (vanhentunut) |
| Imperfekti | reduced | Imperfekti | reduc't (vanhentunut) |
| Partisiipin preesens | reducing | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | reduces |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | reduceth (vanhahtava) |